Christopher Allen is the author of the absurdist satire Conversations with S. Teri O'Type. His work appears in Indiana Review, Quiddity, Night Train, SmokeLong Quarterly: the Best of the First Ten Years anthology 2003-2013, [PANK] blog, Word Riot, Prime Number Magazine and many others. He lives somewhere in Europe and blogs at www.imustbeoff.com.

Megan Alpert lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poetry has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, and Pebble Lake Review. She is at work on her first poetry collection, titled Unsettled.

Matt Ampleman has lived intermittently as a writer, environmental scientist, and now as a JD candidate at Yale. He spent a year in George Mason University’s MFA program, and plans to use his roles in law and policy to help cultural institutions.

Leah Angstman is a transplanted Midwesterner, unsure what feels like home anymore. She writes historical fiction and poetry and is editor-in-chief of Alternating Current Press. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts,Tupelo Quarterly, and Shenandoah. She can be found at leahangstman.com.

Amye Barrese Archer has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and is the author of No One Ever Looks Up and A Shotgun Life. She currently adjuncts at 9,000 different schools, and is the Reviews Editor for PANK, and the Interviews Editor for Hippocampus Magazine.

Mary-Kim Arnold's fiction has appeared online at Tin House and Wigleaf, and is forthcoming at The Pinch Journal. Her poems have been published in burntdistrict, Two Serious Ladies, and Sundog Lit. She has written for HTML Giant and for The Rumpus, where she is Assistant Essays Editor, and she is on the staff of Drunken Boat. She lives in Rhode Island.

David S. Atkinson is the author of Bones Buried in the Dirt. His writing has appeared in [PANK], The Rumpus, Grey Sparrow Journal, Interrobang?!, Atticus Review, & others. He spends his non-literary time as a patent attorney in Denver.

Wendy Babiak (Conspiracy of Leaves, Plain View Press) lives in Ithaca, NY with her family and writes poetry & prose to subvert the status quo. When she’s not scribbling, she’s doing things like harvesting black walnuts in her neighborhood or learning to bake sourdough and ferment vegetables.

Beasley Barrenton is the Editor/Head of Publishing/Bomb Shelter Maintenance for Dog On A Chain Press. There is a whimsical tale circulating around campfires in the Southeast speaking to his enjoyment of harassing jackals and his willingness to run down any of the other bastards as well.

Joseph Bates’s stories have appeared in such places as New Ohio Review, Identity Theory, and the South Carolina Review. He is the author of The Nighttime Novelist, published in 2010 by Writer’s Digest Books, and teaches in the creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Schuler Benson is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author of Southern stories. His fiction and poetry have been featured in Hobart, Kudzu Review, Thunder Clap Press, Cheap Pop Lit, The Fat City Review, and more. His first book is a collection of short fiction titled The Poor Man’s Guide to an Affordable, Painless Suicide.

Jen Besemer is the author of Ten Word Problems, Quiet Vertical Movements, and The Earth Is What Happens. A frequent contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books, Jen also regularly has visual and prose poems in places like BlazeVOX, Otoliths, Artifice, and PANK.

Ben Bever is a poet and teacher in the Washington, D.C. area. He earned his undergraduate degree from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, and an MFA in poetry from George Mason University in Northern Virginia. He maintains a blog at bit.ly/bbeverpoet and can be found on Twitter @bbeverpoet.

David Blomenberg teaches at Purdue University. Recently the poetry editor for Sycamore Review, he writes poetry and non-fiction, which has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg Review, Artifice, Confrontation, Willows Wept, and other journals.

Jordan Blum has an MFA in fiction, and he is currently teaching at various colleges. He's the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Bookends Review, an online creative arts journal. On his downtime, he composes music, fiction, and poetry while also working as a music journalist. He writes for Popmatters, The Big Takeover, and Rock Society Magazine, among others.

David Bulla is the author of Lincoln’s Censor and an assistant professor of journalism at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. He has worked as a professor of journalism at Iowa State University and a sports writer in both North Carolina and Indiana.

Brian has worked at bookstores his entire adult life. By night he writes content for the BookPeople Blog, by day he reads author contracts, submits books for awards, and tries not to get people sued. He collects Garden Gnomes.

David Cotrone is from Plymouth, MA. His writing has appeared in Fifty-Two Stories, The Rumpus, PANK, elimae, Dark Sky Magazine, Thought Catalog and elsewhere. He is also the editor of Used Furniture Review.

Eugene Cross was born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania and received an MFA from The University of Pittsburgh. His stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, American Short Fiction, TriQuarterly, Story Quarterly, and Callaloo, among other publications. He's also been the recipient of scholarships from the Chautauqua Writers' Festival and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Rachelle Cruz hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour on Blog Talk Radio and is an Emerging Voices Fellow, a Kundiman Fellow, and a VONA writer, as well as the author of Self-Portrait as Rumor and Blood. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in Bone Bouquet, [PANK], Muzzle Magazine, Splinter Generation, and KCET’s Departures Series, among others.

Mark Cugini got chu open. The managing editor of Big Lucks, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in NOÖ, Everyday Genius, Stymie, Petrichor Machine and others. He curates the Three Tents Reading Series in Washington, DC.

Shome Dasgupta's website, The Laughing Yeti, plays venue to a series of posts by writers tackling their thoughts on reading and its meaning to them. Linked to this concept, the On Reading Series will also exhibit at The Lit Pub for its featured authors.

Carolyn DeCarlo is the editor of the lit mag UP. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland. She is the author of Twilight Zone (NAP 2013), with Jackson Nieuwland, and Strawberry Hill (Pangur Ban Party 2013). She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Josh Denslow's stories have appeared in Third Coast, Black Clock, Pear Noir!,Cutbank, Wigleaf and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, among others.He is a staff editor at SmokeLong Quarterly and a blog editor at The Lit Pub. He plays the drums in the band Borrisokane.

Alyssa DiSalvo is a freshman in the Honors Program at American University in Washington, D.C. She is a Data Assistant for The Lit Pub, and an intern with Chrysalis Editorial and Gargoyle Magazine/Paycock Press.

James Esch lives in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and teaches literature and writing at Widener University. Recently, his work has appeared in Shaking Like a Mountain, 322 Review, Willows Wept Review, and juked.

Jenna Leigh Evans writes fiction, nonfiction and book reviews; she also curates the author-interview series Seven Questions for the Working Writer. You can find her at jennaleighevans.com and follow her on Twitter (@jennaleighevans).

Sharon Faelten served as a senior book editor and magazine writer at Rodale, Inc. for 25 years. Most recently, she served as Vice-President of the League of Vermont Writers, a professional organization for authors in all genres. Ms. Faelten is also a member of the Honorary Board of the Burlington Book Festival, Burlington, Vermont.

Paul Fauteux received his MFA from George Mason University, where he was the 2011-2012 Completion Fellow. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ampersand, Other Poetry, Burnside Review, Regime and other magazines, and for the advocacy of other fine poets on The Lit Pub. His first chapbook, "The Best Way to Drink Tea," is out from Plan B Press. "How to Un-do Things," a book-length manuscript, was recognized as a semi-finalist in the 11th Annual Slope Editions Book Prize.

Tessa Fontaine ran away with a circus sideshow. Writings about that adventure can be found at The Rumpus, and other work can be found in Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, Seneca Review, and more. She lives beside the mountains in Salt Lake City

Heather Fowler is the author of Suspended Heart and People with Holes. She received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University, and has been nominated for both the storySouth Million Writers Award and Sundress Publications Best of the Net.

Los Angeles native Amélie Frank is the author of five poetry collections, and her work has appeared in print and online in numerous local, national, and international publications. She founded The Sacred Beverage Press with poet Matthew Niblock and produced the acclaimed literary journal Blue Satellite. Her biography appears in both Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of American Women.

gabby gabby is the author of three self-published e-chapbooks. she has two chapbooks, airplane food and congratulations, you own a large rounded stone at the bottom of the sea forthcoming. her full length collection of poems, alone with other people, is also forthcoming. you can find her blog at http://gabbygabbypoetry.com/

Shaun Gannon is the co-creator of Let People Poems. He is an MFA candidate at the Universty of Maryland. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pop Serial, Everyday Genius, Corduroy Mtn., and more.

Tiffany Gibert is a writer and communications professional striving to save syntax and endangered words with help from her blog, Books Matter, and her feline sidekick, Maxwell Smart. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Nathan Goldman’s creative and critical work appears or is forthcoming in Metazen, HTMLGiant, Full Stop, Agora, and elsewhere. He is a student at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where he is co-editor of the Gadfly and Energeia.

Michael Gray holds an MFA from California State University-Fresno and won a 2012 AWP Intro Journals Project Award and the 2013 Hot Street Emerging Writers Contest in Poetry, and received a 2014 Best New Poets nomination, among other honors. He also served as an editorial assistant for The Normal School: A Literary Magazine.

Brad Green's work has appeared in The Minnesota Review, The Texas Observer, Surreal South '11, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, and elsewhere. He's an associate editor at PANK magazine and can be found online.

J.C. Hallman is the author of a number of books. Wm & H’ry: A Short Meditation on Literature, Art, Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and the Correspondence of William and Henry James will appear from the University of Iowa Press in Fall 2012. His blog about the letters can be found here.

Trish Harris is an independent curator, writer, and artist currently teaching in Michigan. She edits the Pea River Journal and curated and designed the Remaking Moby-Dick project. Her poems, stories, and micromemoirs have appeared in McSweeney’s online tendency, Cortland Review, and Brevity. At Twitter, she is @trishlet.

j/j hastain is a collaborator, writer and maker of things. j/j performs ceremonial gore. Chasing and courting the animate and potentially enlivening decay that exists between seer and singer, j/j, simply, hopes to make the god/dess of stone moan and nod deeply through the waxing and waning seasons of the moon.

Aimee Herman's poetry can be read in Polari Journal, Mad Rush, and/or journal, Cake Train, and Sous Les Paves. Her full-length book of poetry, to go without blinking, is being published by BlazeVOX Books.

Patrick Hicks is the author of Finding the Gossamer and This London. He is also the editor of A Harvest of Words, which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College. In the summer months you'll usually find him poking around Northern Ireland.

Liz Hildreth’s poems, translations, and essays have been published in Hayden's Ferry Review, McSweeney's, Parthenon West, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Forklift, Ohio, among other places. She lives in Chicago and works as a writer in online education.

Donora Hillard is the poetry editor of Midwestern Gothicand the author of Theology of the Bodyand Covenant; a third collection, Jeff Bridges, is in progress. She teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit and is completing a doctorate emphasizing poetics and postpedagogy.

Dave Housley's second collection of short fiction, If I Knew the Way, I Would Take You Home, is coming out next year from Dark Sky Books. He's one of the editors and all-around do-stuff people at Barrelhouse magazine, and co-organizes DC's Conversations and Connections writer's conference.

Jamie Iredell is the author of Prose. Poems. a Novel. and The Book of Freaks. He was a cofounder of New South and is fiction editor of Atticus Review. He is Art Director of C&R Press, and lives in Atlanta, where he teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Miguel Jimenez received his MFA in fiction from California State University, Fresno. Much of his work explores the commingling of race and urban landscapes, as well as diaspora communities in the U.S. He lives in Greencastle, Indiana, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at DePauw University.

Eugenia (Jeni) Jobst is the Marketing and Development Associate for Pine Mountain Music Festival. She received a BA in English from Michigan Technological University and is beginning her MA in English this spring. She is editor of PULPIT Magazine.

Tim Jones-Yelvington lives, writes, and performs in Chicago. He is the author of Evan's House and the Other Boys Who Live There and This is a Dance Movie! He edits PANK's annual queer issue, and serves on the board of directors of Artifice.

Joe Kapitan lives in northern Ohio, near the third notch on the Rust Belt. Some of his recent short fiction has appeared online at decomP, Untoward, Wigleaf and Per Contra, and in print at The Cincinnati Review, Bluestem and A Cappella Zoo. He qualified for the 2012 US Olympic team in men's freestyle hammock.

Steven Karl is an editor at Sink Review and a news editor for Coldfront Magazine. Don’t Try This On Your Piano or am i still standing here with my hair down, a collaborative chapbook with Angela Veronica Wong, is available from Lame House Press.

MaryAnne Kolton’s work has appeared publications including the Lost Children Charity Anthology, Thrice Fiction and Connotation Press among others. Her story “A Perfect Family House” was shortlisted for The Glass Woman Prize.

Bri Lee is originally from the faraway island of Australia, but spends most of her time in other kooky places. As a relentless blogger and embarrassed member of generation Y, she dreams that one day her textual/visual rambling might appear in some kind of hard-copy format.

Brian Libgober is a polling analyst for Obama's reelection campaign. He graduated from University of Chicago with a degree in mathematics and philosophy in 2010. Previous reviews of his have appeared in [PANK], The Hypocrite Reader, and the Midway Review. Follow him @libgober.

Kenji C. Liu is a Pushcart Prize nominee and first runner-up finalist for the Poets & Writers 2013 California Writers Exchange Award, his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals, including CURA, The Baltimore Review, RHINO Poetry, Generations, Lantern Review, and others.

Peter Tieryas Liu is the author of Amazon best-seller, Watering Heaven — which was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Int’l Short Story Award — Bald New World, and The Wingless. He has a variety of work published in places like the Evergreen Review, Gargoyle, New Letters, and Rain Taxi. Follow him at tieryas.wordpress.com.

Nathan Logan is the author of three chapbooks; the latest is Arby's Combo Roundup. He is the editor at Spooky Girlfriend Press and is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.

Alex McElroy's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Diagram, Tin House, Memorious, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more work can be found here. He currently serves as the International Editor for Hayden's Ferry Review.

Sheila McMullin received her MFA from George Mason University. Her chapbook Like Water was a finalist for Ahsahtha Press’s 2013 chapbook competition. For more thoughts, please visit: www.moonspitpoetry.com.

LaTanya McQueen's stories have been published in The North American Review, Fourteen Hills, New Orleans Review, Potomac Review, and others. She received her MFA from Emerson College and is currently in the PhD program at the University of Missouri.

Rob MacDonald lives in Boston and is the editor of the online journal Sixth Finch. His poetry has appeared in Octopus, H_NGM_N, notnostrums, The Lumberyard and other journals. Last New Death, a chapbook, is available from Scantily Clad Press.

Sarah Manguso is the author, most recently, of The Two Kinds of Decay, which was named an Editors' Choice by the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Her next book, The Guardians, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Granta Books next month.

Ilana Masad is an Israeli-American finishing up her degree at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been published in After the Fall, The Oxford Student newspaper, has won two fiction contests on Tin House’s blog, and has had a story featured on the front page of Wordpress.com. Most recently, she has won the Rex Warner Literary Prize at Oxford University.

Lara Mimosa Montes is a poet, performer, and PhD candidate based in New York. Her poems have been published in ONandOnScreen, The Fanzine, Bone Bouquet, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Two Serious Ladies. Newer poems are forthcoming in FENCE, Triple Canopy, DIAGRAM, and JERRY. She was born in the Bronx.

Kimberly Campbell Moore spends a lot of time reading. When a book isn't consuming her day, she can often be found writing about books. She co-authors the blog 11 and a half years of books. She also can be found in Sage Magazine Online writing about books.

Sam Moss is from Cascadia, but he currently lives in Laurentia. He has had work in theNewerYork, Signed and Gone Lawn. His first fiction chapbook "Rural Information" was published in January 2014 by the Rockwell Press Collective. You can find more of Sam’s writing, as well as an interview with Mark from 2012, on his blog Perfidious Script.

Adam Novy is the author of a novel, The Avian Gospels, published by Hobart. His work has been published in Dossier, The Believer, The Collagist, The Denver Quarterly, and American Letters and Commentary.

Joseph Michael Owens is the author of Shenanigans! and has written for [PANK], The Rumpus, HTML Giant, & others. He is the blog editor for both InDigest Magazine and The Lit Pub, but you can also find him online at http://categorythirteen.com. Joe lives in Omaha with four dogs and one wife.

Megan Paonessa is the co-founder of Flying House, an annual artist-writer collaboration project based out of Chicago. A graduate of the University of Alabama, she has served as an assistant fiction editor for Black Warrior Review and has recently completed her first novel.

Charles Parsons is a professional writer living in the township of Black Horse, Ohio with his cat. He has an MA in English Literature and a BA in Literature and Writing Minor. His work has appeared in regional magazines and various little journals. In addition to writing, he reads, indexes, and edits manuscripts for a living.

Ryan Rafferty is a carnivorous reader and listener who likes marshmallows, baseball, and Prince. He's also an armchair writer who muses on all things pop culture irregularly at Oh, Behold! Currently he works in digital media in New York City, saving the world one banner ad at a time.

Matthew Savoca was born in 1982 and now splits his time between Philadelphia and New York. His first book of poetry is long love poem with descriptive title. Kendra Grant Malone was born in 1984. Her first book of poetry, Everything is Quiet, was published in 2010. She lives in Brooklyn.

E. L. Schmitt’s poetry has been published in Four and Twenty, Sagebrush Review, and Three Line Poetry. Her nonfiction has previously appeared in Monkeys with Typewriters and is forthcoming in The Rectangle.

Brooke grew up on the Texas-Mexico border and her novel, Borderlands, about the daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants who becomes a performance artist, shifts between that landscape and the landscape of New York. Brooke has just begun publicizing three summer workshops, which you can read about here.

Peter Sheehy has, over the years, organized his bookcases thusly: by title, by author, by date, by publisher, by color, by bookstore, by (living) writers he'd most like to sleep with, and once with the spines facing in, but what a disaster that was.

Matthew Sherling lives in San Francisco. He runs an interview blog called Cutty Spot & an online lit magazine, Gesture. Among other places, his work appears or is upcoming in The Columbia Review, The Believer, Thought Catalog, Fanzine, BIRP!, NAP, Upliterature & Banango Lit.

Lee Slonimsky’s most recent collection of poems isWandering Electron. He has poetry and prose in The Carolina Quarterly, Connecticut Review, Measure, New Ohio Review, The New York Times, and Poetry Daily, among others. Lee manages a hedge fund with an interest in the developmentally disabled, Ocean Partners LP.

“His name is Sam, and his life is a Song,” said his high school painting teacher. Sam is a Data Assistant here at Lit Pub, and loves his job very much. He just graduated fresh out of a suburban Maryland high school and shall attend St. Lawrence University beginning the fall of 2014.

Greg Stahl is a bookseller for the only remaining big national chain and he writes reviews on Goodreads. He once wrote a novel for NaNoWriMo, it was about burritos and it will probably never be published, which is a great loss to Western Literature.

Mike Stein received his MFA in Creative Nonfiction from George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program. A former Editor of So to Speak, he is a Senior Staff Writer at DCBeer.com. His work has been published in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Oxford, England and online. He lives in SE Washington, D.C. with wife Sarah, and dogs, Athena and Bock. He brews beers that no longer exist.

K. M. A. Sullivan has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in creative non-fiction and from Vermont Studio Center in poetry. She is the editor of Vinyl Poetry and the owner and publisher of YesYes Books.

Christi R. Suzanne co-founded a monthly book group in 2011 called MBG por vida (Mini Book Group for life), a group dedicated to the art form of the novella. Her stories and personal essays are published in Crack the Spine, The Splinter Generation, Circa: A Literary Review and Wonder and Risk. She has recently completed writing her first novel. Incidentally, she loves to watch dogs sleep.

Susan Tepper is the author of From the Umberplatzen: A Love Story and has published well over 100 stories, poems, essays and interviews in journals worldwide, and has received six nominations for the Pushcart Prize.

David Tomaloff builds things out of ampersands and light. His work has appeared in publications such as Metazen, Heavy Feather Review, Northville Review, CBS Chicago, Necessary Fiction, HTML Giant, A-Minor, Pank, and elimae.

Meg Tuite's writing has appeared in numerous journals including Berkeley Fiction Review, Epiphany, JMWW, One, the Journal, Monkeybicycle and Boston Literary Magazine. She is the fiction editor of The Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press, and is also the author of Domestic Apparition, Disparate Pathos, and Reverberations.

Sarena Ulibarri is nearing the end of her MFA. She's a first reader for Timber Journal and an occasional judge for NYC Midnight contests. Her fiction has appeared in Birkensnake, Lightspeed, The First Line, The Coachella Review, Monkeybicycle and elsewhere.

Leah Umansky’s first book of poems, Domestic Uncertainties, is out now by BlazeVOX [Books.] Her Mad-Men inspired chapbook, Don Dreams and I Dream is forthcoming from Kattywompus Press in early 2014. She has been a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG and Tin House, a poetry reviewer for The Rumpus and a live twitterer for the Best American Poetry Blog. She also hosts and curates the COUPLET Reading Series.

Jacqueline Valencia lives in Toronto and has published two chapbooks, “Tristise” and “Maybe.” She’s currently working on her first graphic novel. Her writings can be found in Little Fiction, Amelia’s Magazine, and Dead Gender.

Robert Vaughan lives in Milwaukee where he leads writing roundtables at Redbird-Redoak Writing. He is a fiction editor at JMWW magazine and Thunderclap! Press, and he co-hosts Flash Fiction Fridays for WUWM’s Lake Effect.

Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British, was born in Hong Kong, and currently divides his time between Zurich, Reykjavik, and New York. His work has appeared in many journals, including Washington Square Review, Fourteen Hills, The Potomac, The Canary, Saint Petersburg Review, The Bitter Oleander, and Guernica. His latest book is Mao's Mole.

Tim Waldron is the author of the short-story collection World Takes, published by Word Riot Press. His fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, The McNeese Review, The Serving House Book of Infidelity, Dogzplot, Necessary Fiction, Sententia, Monkeybicycle, The Atticus Review, and What’s Your Exit? He is a fiction editor with Best New Writing.

Brandi Wells is editor of Black Warrior Review and a web editor at Hobart. She is the author of Please Don’t Be Upset and the forthcoming This Boring Apocalypse. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Fairy Tale Review, Forklift Ohio, Indiana Review and other journals.

Robert Alan Wendeborn lives and writes in Portland, OR. His poems and reviews can be found in The Collagist, >kill author, PANK, and other cool places. He blogs for Uncanny Valley, and you can follow him on Twitter @rawbbie.

Chris Wiewiora’s book TORO! was an honorable mention in The Lit Pub’s first prose book contest. He lives in Ames where he attends Iowa State University’s Creative Writing & Environment Program & manages Flyway Journal.

Colin Winnette is the author of three books: Revelation, Animal Collection, and Fondly (forthcoming fromAtticus Books in 2013). He was the recipient of the 2012 Sonora Review's Short Fiction Award, and his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, The Believer, and Hobart, among others. Colin lives in San Francisco.

Liz Wyckoff's short fiction has been published in Annalemma, The Collagist, and fwriction : review, and her nonfiction has previously appeared in Slice magazine and the Tin House blog. She currently does book publicity for A Strange Object, Barrelhouse, and Penn State Press.